The "Book of Spells" — written in part by Rowling — is the first augmented reality book/game hybrid to arrive for the new Wonderbook from Sony, which launched this week.

An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book of the Dead, long relegated to a dark vault, in the light of day. A piece of the Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, dated roughly to 375 B.C. to 275 B ...